Temporary power supply firm Aggreko has secured the contract to power the Ryder Cup competition being held at Gleneagles in September.

Aggreko make the announcement at a meeting of senior Scottish business leaders at its manufacturing plant in Dumbarton to discuss building a business legacy for Glasgow from the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

Aggreko has also powered the 2012 Ryder Cup competition, held at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois.

The company had agreed a deal in 2010 to provide services to all PGA and Senior PGA Championships until 2014.

Interim chief executive, Angus Cockburn – who stepped into the role after Rupert Soames left to join Serco - said: “We have done a lot of Ryder Cups and we will be providing the power to transmit that around the world.

“We are experienced at golf whether it is the US PGA tour or the European Tour, Asia or Africa or The Open which we have done year-in year-out. I'm confident we will do a very good job.”

The Agrekko event was attended by Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman, Lord Smith of Kelvin and Team GB Olympic Men’s Curling Captain, David Murdoch.

FTSE-100 listed Aggreko, which ihad also unveil a specially commissioned artwork generator to celebrate the Games.

Aggreko said around 150 of its staff will be working on the Commonwealth Games contract, which will see the firm deploy around 220 kilometres of cabling across 29 games venues, including stadium, the athletes village and operation centres.